At 23:33 universal time, 10 hours and 52 minutes after the gravitational waves arrived, the team used the telescope in Chile to snap an image of NGC 4993, and Charles Kilpatrick, a postdoc at UC Santa Cruz, saw a bright spot not visible in
archival images of the galaxy.
Astronomers studied 10,000
of these Sun - like stars in
archival Hubble
images over a nine - year period to unearth clues to our
galaxy's evolution.